Application Security Engineer — Seattle Onsite

Cybersecurity Jobs; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

RSUs

Health insurance

Life Insurance

EAP

Mental Health Support

Medical Advice Line

Flexible Spending Accounts

Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Security in Seattle, WA is seeking an Application Security Engineer for an onsite role. You will strengthen the security posture of services, applications, and websites through reviews, remediation, and automation.

You will work with engineers and security partners to evaluate application and mobile security, respond to threats, and help improve security processes with measurable outcomes, including training, documentation, and cross-team enablement.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship work across at least 5 security domains.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP.
• Experience with scripting, programming, and security code reviewing.
• Experience troubleshooting systems issues, logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools.
• Knowledge of common software security vulnerabilities (e.g. OWASP top 10) and remediation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Conduct application security reviews, including architecture reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, and security testing.
• Perform mobile security reviews.
• Support projects and research work as needed.
• Deliver security training and outreach to internal development teams.
• Provide security guidance and documentation.
• Build security workflow automation to improve security activities.
• Deliver security metrics and drive process improvements.
• Assist with recruiting activities and related administrative work.

Skills

Application security

Code reviews

Threat modeling

Security testing

Scripting

CLI automation

OWASP top 10

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Python

Java

C++

Job description

Amazon Security in Seattle, WA is seeking an Application Security Engineer for an onsite role. You will strengthen the security posture of services, applications, and websites through reviews, remediation, and automation.

You will work with engineers and security partners to evaluate application and mobile security, respond to threats, and help improve security processes with measurable outcomes, including training, documentation, and cross-team enablement.